Compare AI SpendOps vs. CloudForecast

Most enterprises can report what AI cost them. Far fewer can say which team owns it, whether it was approved, or what it returned. FinOpsly closes that gap. The platform governs AI spend on the same cost model that carries the cloud, data platform and SaaS an AI workload consumes, so a business unit sees the full cost of an AI initiative instead of four disconnected bills. Capabilities include: Cost estimation before deployment. Model an architecture and get a priced workload across model APIs, GPU capacity, warehouse consumption and storage, with the assumptions on screen. Weigh model choices against consumption you have actually measured. Attribution that holds up in a chargeback cycle. Spend resolves to owners, teams, applications, business units and customers through hierarchies nine or more levels deep. Tagging is standardized across providers, keys and resources are labeled in bulk from plain-language rules, and whatever remains unattributed is published as a number, not absorbed. Guardrails that act. Set budgets by project, team or API key. Catch anomalies with root cause and route them to whoever owns the resource. Surface waste that provider tooling misses, using FinOpsly's own detection models. Plan commitments across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Park idle compute on approved schedules, reversibly. Financial results you can defend. Automated chargeback in a single cycle. Savings measured as what reached run-rate against a no-action baseline. Unit economics down to cost per call, per active user and per customer served. For technology and finance leaders accountable for what AI spend returns.

CloudZero helps businesses optimize cloud spend with full visibility into costs—so they can reduce wasteful spending and improve their unit economics. Unlike other solutions, we take an engineering-led approach to cost optimization, helping teams understand what drives 100% of their operational cloud spend, empowering them to reduce risk, minimize waste, and maximize profit.

Gain full visibility and control over your IT assets, software licenses, usage, and spend with Setyl. Setyl is a cloud-based IT asset and license management (ITAM) platform that connects to your existing systems with 100+ out-of-the-box integrations. Use Setyl to manage all your hardware assets, software applications, SaaS subscriptions, licenses, vendors, admins, users, and spend in one place — helping you: 1. Manage both hardware and software assets in one place. 2. Automate and scale daily IT operations, including inventory management and employee onboarding and offboarding processes. 3. Identify and cut wasted IT spend. 4. Prepare for your security audit and stay compliant, including with SOC 2 and ISO 27001. With its intuitive interface and low learning curve, the Setyl platform offers a user-friendly experience and facilitates collaboration across your organization. Features include: • IT asset and license inventory • Asset lifecycle management • SaaS subscription, software application, and license management • Software renewal tracking • License rightsizing • Employee onboarding and offboarding workflows • ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance • Vendor management • IT spend management and reporting • 100+ native integrations (Microsoft, Google, MDM, RMM, IAM, HR, helpdesk tools, and more) • API access • Fully guided support

Around 25 million engineers work across dozens of distinct functions. Engineers are using New Relic as every company is becoming a software company to gather real-time insight and trending data on the performance of their software. This allows them to be more resilient and provide exceptional customer experiences. New Relic is the only platform that offers an all-in one solution. New Relic offers customers a secure cloud for all metrics and events, powerful full-stack analytics tools, and simple, transparent pricing based on usage. New Relic also has curated the largest open source ecosystem in the industry, making it simple for engineers to get started using observability.

Zahara's cloud-based platform automates budget management and suppliers. It also allows for multi-level purchase approvals, delivery approvals, and invoice reconciliation and approvals. Zahara integrates seamlessly with the most popular accounting software, such as QuickBooks Online or Xero, to provide expanding SME's with real-time visibility and central control over their purchasing. Zahara can be used for controlling spend within an organization. We can take the initial request to purchase something and automate the approval and sending the PO to the Vendor. Deliveries can be received, invoices from vendors matched and processed before being exported to finance. Zahara increases control and speeds up processing.

Josys is an AI-native identity security and governance platform built for the age of enterprise AI. As AI adoption accelerates, identity has become the fastest-growing attack surface and the hardest to govern. Josys discovers, governs, and secures every identity in the enterprise, human, machine, and AI agent, across every application. Its policy-led model lets security and IT teams set access policies once and enforce them autonomously: risk gets surfaced, access gets controlled, and identity threats get remediated in real time, with no manual oversight required. Over 1,000 organizations and MSPs worldwide trust Josys to turn identity from a liability into an autonomously governed advantage. Learn more at josys.com.

ESET Protect Advanced offers a comprehensive cybersecurity solution for businesses of any size. It offers advanced endpoint security against ransomware and zero-day threats. It also includes full disk encryption to ensure legal compliance and data security. The solution uses adaptive scanning, cloud sandboxing and behavioral analysis for proactive cloud-based threats defense. Mobile threat protection secures Android and iOS with anti-malware and anti-theft. It also offers cloud app security, mail server protection, vulnerability and patch management, and cloud app protection. Multi-factor authentication and extended detection and reaction (XDR) improve threat detection and response. The solution provides a single pane of glass remote management to provide visibility into threats and users. It also offers advanced reporting and customized notifications.

c/side: The Client-Side Platform for Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Privacy Monitoring third-party scripts effectively eliminates uncertainty, ensuring that you are always aware of what is being delivered to your users' browsers, while also enhancing script performance by up to 30%. The unchecked presence of these scripts in users' browsers can lead to significant issues when things go awry, resulting in adverse publicity, potential legal actions, and claims for damages stemming from security breaches. Compliance with PCI DSS 4.0.1, particularly sections 6.4.3 and 11.6.1, requires that organizations handling cardholder data implement tamper-detection measures by March 31, 2025, to help prevent attacks by notifying stakeholders of unauthorized modifications to HTTP headers and payment information. c/side stands out as the sole fully autonomous detection solution dedicated to evaluating third-party scripts, moving beyond reliance on merely threat feed intelligence or easily bypassed detections. By leveraging historical data and artificial intelligence, c/side meticulously analyzes the payloads and behaviors of scripts, ensuring a proactive stance against emerging threats. Our continuous monitoring of numerous sites allows us to stay ahead of new attack vectors, as we process all scripts to refine and enhance our detection capabilities. This comprehensive approach not only safeguards your digital environment but also instills greater confidence in the security of third-party integrations.

Polonious is an ISO27001 investigation management workflow solution designed around 3 key principles: 1 - Security 2 - Process centric 3 - Configuration and flexibility What this means is that Polonious allows you to build workflows to manage your investigations in a way that manages your data and your evidence in a highly secure, ISO27001 certified way; allows you to comply with any regulatory requirements with minimal headache and effort by building workflows which are inherently compliant, and; does so without the need for expensive and time consuming code changes - it's even possible for users to do it themselves via the GUI. With Polonious, you can run detailed reports on case outcomes, timeframes, and finances, and break that down across case types, investigators, and even down to investigation status. So you can prove your value up the chain, but you can also identify any problem areas and improve your efficiency.

Fraxion helps mid-market finance teams take control of spend with a single procure-to-pay platform covering procurement, accounts payable, expenses, and spend management. Instead of managing disconnected purchasing and finance processes, organizations can oversee the full spend lifecycle in one place. From requisition and purchasing through invoicing and payment, Fraxion provides automated PO workflows, configurable multi-level approvals, budget and policy controls, PunchOut and catalog capabilities, AI-enabled AP automation, spend intelligence, payments, and a mobile experience for managing spend anywhere. Each transaction is tracked with a comprehensive audit trail, providing finance leaders with greater visibility and accountability. Fraxion is built for the Office of the CFO and supports a flexible path to adoption: teams can begin with procurement or AP and add capabilities over time to create a complete procure-to-pay environment without starting over. Fraxion is SOC 2-compliant and connects with major accounting and ERP systems such as Sage, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, QuickBooks, and Xero. It has served mid-market organizations in healthcare, life sciences, agriculture, education, and natural resources for over two decades.